sej7278
July 8th, 2009, 06:42 PM
I'm trying to get LUKS encryption working on 8.04 - so far I can encrypt a disk, and get it to ask for a passphrase at boot, mount the partition etc.
Eventually I want to have multiple drives encrypted (data, not boot disk) using the same passphrase. I do not want them all to be one big LVM, which is the obvious way to do it, I want separate disks with one partition on each, I'm not keen on using a keyfile stored on the 1st disk to unlock the 2nd either.
You can do this in Fedora - it passes the same passphrase to every LUKS key it finds.
I'm thinking of having a server that can boot without asking for a passphrase, but then you manually mount its data drives later over SSH - not automatically from GDM using your login password etc.
Eventually I want to have multiple drives encrypted (data, not boot disk) using the same passphrase. I do not want them all to be one big LVM, which is the obvious way to do it, I want separate disks with one partition on each, I'm not keen on using a keyfile stored on the 1st disk to unlock the 2nd either.
You can do this in Fedora - it passes the same passphrase to every LUKS key it finds.
I'm thinking of having a server that can boot without asking for a passphrase, but then you manually mount its data drives later over SSH - not automatically from GDM using your login password etc.